On Nov 14, 2003, at 4:19 AM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> In article <20031114113254.O4919@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>
> david@l8s.co.uk wrote:
>
>> sys/disklabel could be in src/tools/compat/sys - but you still need to
>> stop in going after machine/* since you don't know 'machine'.
>
> You could create symlinks which points to files in proper machine dirs.

No, you can't.  Some people use the tools built in a 
machine-independent way... i.e. they build the tools for a 
machine-arch.

> I think what you want to do exactly is
> "including declarations of struct disklabel and struct pattitions
>  without including <machine/disklabel.h>", right?
> Then using MAXPARTITIONS or _MACHINE_DISKLABEL_H_ is
> not correct even if it works for now.
> It's still better to add declarations into sys/bootblock.h
> to define info about target machines.

Agreed.  Or add it to sys/disklabel.h prefaced with the machine name:

#define	MAXPARTITIONS_HP300 8

and then in <machine/disklabel.h> for hp300:

#define MAXPARTITIONS MAXPARTITIONS_HP300

This would even allow us to move forward on a disklabel library that 
understood the disklabel formats/offsets used by our various platforms.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>